On Saturday 15 February 2014 17:47:53 Linus Lüssing wrote: > With this patch a node may additionally perform the dropping or > unicasting behaviour for a link-local IPv4 and link-local-all-nodes > IPv6 multicast packet, too. > > The extra counter and BATADV_MCAST_WANT_ALL_UNSNOOPABLES flag is needed > because with a future bridge snooping support integration a node with a > bridge on top of its soft interface is not able to reliably detect its > multicast listeners for IPv4 link-local and the IPv6 > link-local-all-nodes addresses anymore (see RFC4541, section 2.1.2.2 > and section 3). > > Even though this new flag does make "no difference" now, it'll ensure > a seamless integration of multicast bridge support without needing to > break compatibility later. > > Also note, that even with multicast bridge support it won't be possible > to optimize 224.0.0.x and ff02::1 towards nodes with bridges, they will > always receive these ranges. > > Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <[email protected]> > --- > main.c | 6 +++ > main.h | 1 + > multicast.c | 135 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- > packet.h | 9 ++++ > soft-interface.c | 1 + > types.h | 12 +++++ > 6 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
Applied in revision 1c09034. Thanks, Marek
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